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The two men, along with a third man Roy Langdale, 32, of Worcester Way, Royston, stole cars to transport them to the scene of their crimes and used stolen number plates to disguise the identity of the vehicles.

They took more than £200,000 worth of property during the commercial burglaries with £125,000 worth of damage caused.

Three high performance Audi cars were also taken following house burglaries staged to steal the car keys.

The value of the three Audis was £108,700 with £46,700 damage cause to the vehicles.

The gang also staged successful raids on Tesco stores in Market Deeping, Grantham and Ramsey.

They also raided Waitrose in Oundle, Cooper's Convenience Store in Kirton , near Boston, and Kate's Cabin filling station at Chesterton, Cambridgeshire and carried out a number of other unsuccessful burglaries.

They were eventually arrested after police targeted a stolen Audi being driven in the early hours of the morning in Cambridgeshire.

Wesley Smith, 35, and John Smith, 44, both of Oxney Lane, Peterborough, were convicted by a jury of a charge of conspiracy to commit burglary between March 29, 2017 and July 1, 2017, at the end of a trial at Lincoln Crown Court. Both men denied the charge.

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Frow, of College Close, Lincoln, denied a charge of causing a child to watch a sexual act as a result of the incident in November 2016 but was found guilty by a jury after a trial.

He was cleared of sexually assaulting the young girl. In a separate trial he was found not guilty of charges of rape and sexual assault on a woman.

The jury failed to reach a verdict on a further charge of sexual assault and afterwards the prosecution decided not to pursue the matter.

He denied all three matters. He denied two charges of breach of a non-molestation after contacting two women in breach of a previous court order.

He changed his plea and admitted one of the charges and was found guilty by a jury of the second charge.

Frow had earlier admitted a charge of driving while disqualified.

In 2004 he was convicted of having sexual intercourse with a girl under the age of 16.

Frow was jailed for two years and placed on the sex offenders' register for 10 years. He was also banned from driving for three years.

Steven Feeley - Murderer

Steven Feeley

Steven Feeley, 40, of Eudo Road, has been jailed of life for the murder of Gareth Bailey.

Feeley, from Skegness, was arrested and charged with murder over the killing of Gareth Bailey, 29, who was found with serious injuries at his home in Chapman Court, Ingoldmells, on December 6, 2017 and pronounced dead in hospital.

Feeley denied murder but was found guilty by a jury at Nottingham Crown Court.

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During his crime spree which began on March 2, Perry stole meat valued at £20 from a shop in Boston. The next day he caused £200 damage to a door after forcing entry to the Woodside care home in Skegness.

Just hours later Perry was identified on CCTV as he had stolen a purse.

Later that month Perry stole a handbag containing a purse and sentimental photo from a Costcutter store in Skegness and he was spotted in a staff area at the Skegness Tyre Company.

He also stole a wallet from the staff room at the Embassy Theatre in Skegness.

Perry also stole money from a pensioner and a handbag from behind a bar in a pub.

Perry, of no fixed address, admitted three charges of burglary, seven charges of non-dwelling burglary and one charge of theft between March 2 and April 4.

He was jailed for six years.

Stephen Bostock - Drug dealing builder

Stephen Bostock has been jailed for eight and a half years for drug dealing

Builder Stephen Bostock turned to drug dealing after he lost his job has been jailed for eight and a half years.

Bostock, 64, was first arrested in summer 2015 after police raided his home in Grantham twice and found a stash of drugs and mobile phones.

The items found by officers showed that both Bostock and another resident Kirsty Clayton were involved in the supply of mephedrone and heroin.

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A further search carried out in the same house in September 2015 found 91.5gs of amphetamine in the freezer.

Bostock was bailed but was arrested again in November 2017 after being stopped and searched in High Street, Grantham. A plastic bag containing three wraps of heroin was found in his jacket. They were typical £10 deals.

His home was searched and 17.39gs of cannabis was found. Mobile phones were examined and messages were found which reflected the supply of both heroin and cocaine. The messages showed he had a sub-dealer working for him.

Bostock later moved to West Wales but was arrested again after a drink driving offence, as a result he was brought back to Lincolnshire to face the drug charges.

Bostock, formerly of Chestnut Grove, Grantham admitted 13 charges relating to the supply and possession of drugs including cocaine, heroin, amphetamine and mephedrone and was jailed for eight and a half years.

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All of the rooms had been ransacked. Many items had been broken. There were cigarette burns and butts within the house and a large amount of property had been taken.

The court was told that the house was entered a number of times on September 18 and 19 last year after a crowbar was used to force open a kitchen window.

More items were again taken later in the month when the owner returned on October 3 to discover what had happened.

The court was told that Zieba, of no fixed address was jailed for three years and four months after admitting burglary between September 17 and October 3.

Arlak, 33, of Fydell Street Boston, denied two charges of burglary but was found guilty of both matters. He was jailed for three years.

Arthur Wilder - Jet-setting fraudster

Businessman Arthur Wilder has been jailed for three years for fraud. (Image: Hull Live)

Businessman Arthur Wilder, 67, was found guilty of deliberately making false statements about his earnings in an application for a £1m mortgage from the Royal Bank of Scotland to buy Raithby Hall, a stately home south of Louth in Lincolnshire.

That deal eventually fell through without him buying the property.

But a year later, he managed to secure a £1.4m re-mortgage deal from the same bank on a house he owned in Owston Ferry, near Scunthorpe, after supplying the same false information.

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Patterson, 40, was arrested after he was seen inside the Sizzling Griddle in Upper Long Leys Road in Lincoln late at night on May 18 this year.

Police were called, climbed over a fence and arrested Patterson. He had been going to visit his girlfriend on the cardiac care ward at Lincoln County Hospital, but had stopped off to commit the burglary on the way.

He has 73 offences of dishonesty on his record going back to 1991 when his first offences of theft was committed.

The court was told that Patterson had five previous convictions for house burglary and a further 11 previous convictions for other burglaries.

Patterson, 40 of Dykes End, Collingham admitted burglary of the Sizzling Griddle café. He was jailed for ten months.

Anthony Hayward - Tricked a young boy into stripping

Anthony Hayward, 33, has been jailed for six years (Image: Lincs Police)

Anthony Hayward, 33, tricked a young boy into stripping off by posing as a female university student called Sam during sick MSM chats.

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Hayward, of Princess Street, Lincoln, also admitted taking 27 photos of another boy during chats - including one of him naked.

And cops discovered a huge haul of disgusting material which has now seen Hayward locked up for six years.

The images were found after police executed a search warrant at Hayward's then home in Woodhall Drive, Lincoln, during March 2017.

In a moving victim impact which that boy's mother read out at the court hearing, she said she believed her son's innocence had been taken away.

She told the court: "It makes me feel sick to the stomach and does not go away that he has taken photos of my son, a young and innocent boy."

Hayward's secret world of perversion was exposed when police raided his home - and the court heard full details of just how much obscene material was in his house.

Lincoln Crown Court heard 280 images in the most serious Category A were recovered, with 297 in Category B and 637 in Category C.

Hayward, now of Princess Street, Lincoln, pleaded guilty to inciting a child to engage in sexual activity, one charge of taking Category C photos of a child, two charges of distributing indecent images of children, three charges of possessing indecent images of children, and one charge of possessing extreme pornography.

Hayward will also have to register as a Sex Offender for life and was made the subject of a Sexual Offences Prevention Order.

Mark Lovell - Cannabis grower caught by drone

Mark Lovell

A drone operation over the property detected a heat source coming from Mark Lovell's property in Chapel St Leonards.

Officers carried out a raid as a result of the evidence provided by the drone. They found what was described as a professional cannabis growing operation with the potential to produce more than £50,000 worth of the drugs.